| Diction |
Syntax |
Lexicon |
Personification |
Alliteration |
Assonance |
Repetition |
Pun |
| "Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day!" (Pg.28). |
”Then you should say what you mean”(pg.69) |
"I never heard of 'Uglification,'" Alice ventured to say, (Pg. 93). |
“Your hair wants more cutting," said the Hatter(pg.68) |
“that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness-- you know you say things are ‘much of a muchness’ did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?'”(pg.75) |
" Did you say 'pig', or 'fig'?' (pg.66) |
“Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle”(pg.72) |
"you can draw water out of a water-well," said the Hatter; " so i should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle well-eh, stupid?"(pg.74) |
| “You mean you can’t take any less” said the Hatter(pg.73) |
"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!" (Pg. 69). |
"It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, (Pg. 42). |
"If you knew Time as well as I do" said the Hatter, "you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him."(pg.71) |
"By-the-bye, what became of the baby?" said the Cat (Pg. 66). |
"Once upon a time there were three little sisters," the Dormouse began in a great hurry; "and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well---" (Pg. 73). |
"Wow! wow! wow!" (Pg. 63). |
"Mine is a long and a sad tale, said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 'It is a long tail, certainly, said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; but why do you call it sad?'"(pg.37) |
| "I call it purring, not growling," said Alice (Pg. 66). |
“I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as I sleep when I breathe”(pg.69) |
"---did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?" (Pg. 75). |
"Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse," said the Hatter, "when the Queen bawled out 'He's murdering the time! Off with his head!' " (Pg. 72). |
"It was the best butter," the March Hare meekly replied (Pg. 70). |
"Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, 'Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you.---" (Pg. 37). |
"Down, down, down," (Pg. 21). |
"Just think what work it would make with the day and night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis---" "Talking of axes," said the Duchess, "chop off her head!" (Pg. 62). |